Thursday 2 June 2011

The ‘No Sleep Til “No Sleep Til Hammersmith” Project’ Final Album – No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith (1981)

1. Ace of Spades
2. Stay Clean
3. Metropolis
4. The Hammer
5. Iron Horse/Born to Lose
6. No Class
7. Overkill
8. (We are) The Road Crew
9. Capricorn
10. Bomber
11. Motörhead

Well here we are, at the final album of my little project. This was Motorhead’s first live album and also it should be pointed out it’s the album that got to number one on the charts. Yes, a Motörhead album got to number one. Amazing huh? There’s a real rough and ready feel to the live recording on this, permeated with sounds of the crowd roaring their approval as the band, in the ‘classic’ line-up of Lemmy, Fast Eddie and Philthy, bolt through some great tunes starting off with the iconic ‘Ace of Spades’ and it just gets better from there with ‘No Class’, ‘(We are) The Road Crew’, ‘Bomber’ and ‘Motörhead’ being the songs that really come out well from being played live, more so than the others. The lasting image of this great album (although not the greatest live album they have done) is once the final song is over we are left with the crowds cheering over and over “Motörhead, Motörhead, Motörhead…”